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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.

Angela Duckworth

When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’
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There haven’t been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That’s not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.
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At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
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Negative feelings are typical of learning, and you shouldn’t feel like you’re stupid when you’re frustrated doing something. You might say to yourself, ‘I can’t do this,’ but you should say, ‘That’s great.’ That means you really have the potential to learn something there.
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When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.
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It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.
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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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You cannot will yourself to be interested in something you’re not interested in. But you can actively discover and deepen your interest.
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Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?
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I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father’s clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.
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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That’s what I’m after.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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People’s lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can’t be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.
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